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Spain seeks help to relocate children from Ceuta migrant crisis Some 1,500 children and teenagers arrived from Morocco this week, as part of a surge of thousands of migrants swimming or climbing a fence into the enclave Hundreds more people tried to force their way into Ceuta on Wednesday despite tightened security from Spain

More than 350 migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Monday, officials said, days after one of the largest rush of arrivals over the frontier in more than a decade. The young migrants forced their way through the high border fence into the Spanish North African territory, ecstatic to have finally crossed into a European Union state. […] Ceuta and Melilla, also a Spanish territory in North Africa, have the EU’s only land borders with Africa, so are entry points for migrants who either climb the border fence, swim along the coast or hide in vehicles....

A Moroccan woman was caught trying to smuggle a 19-year-old man across the border with Spain curled up inside a suitcase. The Spanish Civil Guard arrested the woman in Ceuta, one of Spain’s two enclave bordering Morocco, on December 30th. The 22-year-old was caught after border guards observed her “acting suspiciously” as she waited in line to cross the border with a large suitcase. …

Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Sunday by storming a border fence, though most were eventually turned back, the Spanish government said. Dozens of migrants made it to the top of the 6 meter barbed wire fence in the early hours of Sunday before being lifted down by cranes,... Only two people were allowed into Ceuta to be taken to hospital while the rest were returned to Morocco, the Spanish government said... Five Spanish police and 50 from Morocco were injured, the government added, after migrants used rocks...

It was the images of empty food markets on the news, and reporters' overblown warnings of possible shortages, that told Spaniards on Thursday that their nation's five-century dispute with Morocco over the sovereignty of Ceuta and Melilla, two enclaves on the Mediterranean coast, had reignited. In the worst diplomatic spat between the two countries in almost a decade, Moroccan activists were blocking food imports into one of the enclaves and promising more action to come. The Spanish government and the press were appalled, not so much at the protest, but that it had taken place after King Juan Carlos himself...

Six died in a massive assault of immigrants in the fence that separates Ceuta of Morocco Six people have passed away this dawn in a massive assault of about 600 immigrants to the fence that separates Ceuta of Morocco, has informed the chain TO BE, that mentions police sources. The assault began on the 3,30 although shortly before, like distraction maneuver, a hundred of people tried to penetrate more in Spain in the border area watched over the police. This new incident in the border with the neighbor of the south takes place hours before a summit begins Hispanic-Moroccan...